“Actually, I got sick twice. At first I had a problem in the throat, with fever and I went to Rio de Janeiro train. Missing 15 days to fight again had the same problem in the throat, and Dede (Pederneiras) told me that if I did not train well next week, would be better to cancel the fight, and leave for later. But I wanted to fight anyway, and thankfully it worked.”

Beating Jorgenson is impressive all on it’s own, let alone after a training camp screwed up by sickness.

Remember when Carlos Condit’s camp said they’d be interested in fighting again before the GSP match in the fall? Well, how about a rematch against Nick Diaz? ESPN’s Brett Okamoto gets Lorenzo Fertitta’s thoughts:

Just spoke to @lorenzofertitta. He said @CarlosCondit has definitely earned title shot/right to wait for GSP. No rematch. @lorenzofertitta told me GSP was upset and wanted him to make rematch but he said, “I can’t do that to Carlos.”

They already screwed him once when they traded him out of the GSP title fight. Making him fight Nick Diaz AGAIN? Man. It’s justifiable in the sense that it was a controversial decision in an extremely close fight, but it just seems wrong considering everything.

Dana White just said that Anderson Silva vs Chael Sonnen 2 has been verbally agreed to for June. Chael will finally head down to Brazil to have his steak medium rare.

I’ve never loved Carlos Condit as much as I do today. BLESS YOU CARL CONDUCT!

repenttokyo

love the knee gif.

theinsaneoneJustinMcCully

Durable orbital

Marley Marl

Don’t know how the judges all gave Condit the last round…

glassjawsh

Diaz won the first two. condit 3 and 4. Diaz the 5th.

I dont care to argue. its just one mans (sober) interpretation

glassjawsh

still waiting on Derek’s retirement announcement after he bitched out on making good on his bet….

Reverend Clint

im with the judges… diaz sucks

scissors61

At the beginning of the fifth nate told him you are winning 3-1 and after nick mentioned he wouldve went for it more if he knew he was behind, frustrating stuff.

That is the definition of point-fighting, Mr. “MMA is being ruined wahhhh!” Seriously, the level of butthurt from Diaz fans is incredible. Diaz’s style got exposed and his inability to adjust beyond ratcheting up trash-talk showed a complete lack of adaptability. For a guy who’s supposedly one of the most well-rounded fighters in the sport he sure looked like a one-trick pony to me.

Night Rider

Apparently I need to be lumped into the crazy bin, I had it for diaz 4-1 but at the very least he Won rounds 1,2, and 5.

Fuck off if this is the future of mma. how in the fuck did most people who scored the fight for carlos give him round five, when the closest the fight came to being finished was in that round by diaz. (Dana Included)

At the beginning of the fifth nate told him you are winning 3-1 and after nick mentioned he wouldve went for it more if he knew he was behind, frustrating stuff.

Also how do you take two points from one guy for accidentally kicking a guys balls,(which happens all the time due to the leg riding up even when unintentional) See gsp vs hughes. and not take a point from Koscheck who decides he wants to stuff takedowns early with his fingernails in a dudes eyeball. I like Herb dean for the most part but cmon.

Either way War Diaz, and holy shit can Man Mountain Roy take a beating.

iamphoenix

Night Rider

Oh yeah all those times Nick bounced his fucking head off the cage, that mustve been point fighting, But whooooaaah watch out for those leg kicks.

Get real

And thank you for posting the above gif I was failing at posting it as I suck at computers.

scissors61

Nick certainly wasn’t throwing bombs out there and looking to finish. The only time he ever came close to looking like finishing was at the ass end of the 5th round. Bottom line is Nick’s whole waving his arms/trash-talking thing didn’t work and he couldn’t adjust. He got kicked to shit and couldn’t do anything about it, so that’s on him. It’s not Carlos’s fault he’s the smarter, quicker, better fighter and Nick couldn’t do anything about it. Diaz had nothing. People will whine to the end of days about Garcia getting decisions based off of walking into strikes and being “aggressive” but when Diaz does it that’s just fine because of his cult of personality. What a load of crap.

agentsmith

Werdum pulls the old “hey, what’s that?” trick:

G-ranical

We need the video of Joe Rogan on FX with Dana White hyping the fight like a maniac with Dana cracking a smile and Goldberg commenting on it afterwards.

FUCKING……..FUNNY!

Get on it.

“You’re my boy blue”

scissors61

Word, I thought Rogan was about to have a heart attack.

Reverend Clint

condit did what he wanted so in my book dictated the fight and in all but one round outstruck diaz. Diaz did have 2 takedowns though if you enjoy gay sex.

matthewpolly

Diaz was more aggressive. Condit was smarter. On the cards, I would have given it to Diaz because I thought he won 1,2, & 5. But overall, Condit scored more and was more effective as a counter striker. It was a very close fight and Diaz’s face looked like someone who had been in a fight not a track meet. Greg Jackson proved again he’s the best tactician in MMA and also raises the question: how does he coach GSP vs Condit?

MPL

People defending Diaz are retards.

That’s all.

DJ ThunderElbows

Diaz did not have the footwork to land and Condit did. I was pulling for Nick but he didn’t deserve to win that fight if he can only strike stationary or in straight lines.

Neat fight. Looking forward to the GSP match.

Letibleu

GSP left Jacksons.

Symbul

Everyone bitching about Condit “running” is a butthurt little Diaz fanboy, no two ways about it.

Nice to see the “OMG Greg Jackson ruins fights!11!” trolls crawling out of their lairs once again. Nick got outstruck, fucking simple as that.

The worst part is the idiots talking about how Diaz was always coming forward and “controlling the cage”. If you walk up to a guy and he punches you and circles out, you’re not controlling shit. I wonder how these same people would apply their brilliant logic to someone taking top control but warding off sub attempts the whole time. That’s “cage control”, right? Fucking hell, MMA fans sometimes.

Not that this wasn’t a close, competitive fight. It was. Totally. But Nick Diaz just brings out the crazy somehow.

I hope someone more motivated than me can round up all the Cruz bashing comments after his fights. I’m pretty sure there are a lot of hypocritical motherfuckers on here running their yaps. Condit employed the EXACT same gameplan as Cruz. It worked by frustrating & then outpointing Diaz. I had it 48-47 Condit. Bear in mind, he had very little power on his strikes & I don’t count leg kicks as meaningfully as punches unless they’re brutal.

Jarman

I had it 48-47 condit. He kept mobile, slipped damage often, and surprised diaz with combos and good timing. Condit outpunched the volume puncher. Diaz coulda adjusted, and quit charging forward and countered. He started doing that midway, landed a few, then proceeded to march forward. This was not a screwjob, this was the rare case of accurate judging. Ineffective aggression loses to effective countering. Go figure. Don’t like it? go watch x-arm.

Condit landed some pretty interesting combos throughout. Not packing the most power, but well timed, and well executes. That Left jab, left leg kick, right high kick combo he caught diaz with looked so awkward, but the surprise on diaz face was money.

Diaz fought hard, but his style got pegged, he got out tactic’d. shit happens. Sometimes you run into someone with equal cardio, someone who can outstrike your single dimension striking. But then he pulls that little bitch move? “I lost, I’m not playing anymore!” Fucking pathetic. I’m glad for condit that he won, but I was really hoping to see GSP vs Diaz. Oh well, GSP’ll take out condit (in 5 rounds), by then Diaz’ll wake the fuck up, and we’ll get to see that fight too.

P W

I have no problems whatsoever with Condit winning that fight. I did however get upset by the moron at Yahoo Sports who called the fight “a UFC classic”. My expectations went up way too high.

Trol

I guess aggression and octagon control doesn’t count in the score cards. Condit ran most of the fight. Diaz should have just walked into the middle of the Octagon and stood there.

Doesn’t really matter, GSP will lay-and-pray both of them to a snoozefest.

CAP

Yeah fight was kinda a letdown as I was expecting more of a WOAR!! I have no problems with Condit getting the win as it was close but still way more interested in a Diaz/GSP fight.

As a fighter if you hear Cecil Peoples is one of the judges you better handle it on your own.

P W

Common now, surely aggression/the willingness to deliver damage cannot trump ACTUAL damage delivered? No doubt Diaz wanted to hurt Condit, but he couldn’t. Intentions are important, but not more important than actions.

Reverend Clint

^hahaha very true

OlyReigns

Octagon control is keeping the fight where you want it to be. condit wanted to land kicks and counter-strikes from the outside. Thats what he did and clearly won.

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